The blaze broke out about 1 p.m. in the Sunshine Summit area, north of Oak Grove and east of Palomar Mountain, according to Cal Fire.
A wildfire spread over hilly open terrain in the rural northeastern reaches of San Diego County Wednesday, blackening hundreds of acres but posing no immediate structural threats.
Within four hours, the flames had charred roughly 400 acres as ground crews and personnel aboard air tankers and water-dropping helicopters worked to halt the spread of the blaze, which was growing in a southeasterly direction, said Mike Cornette, a fire captain with the state agency.The closest structures to the fire as of 5:15 p.m. were homes in Chihuahua Valley, about four miles from the burn zone, the spokesman said.
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